As such, it seems appropriate to include some screen shots of this final
version (presumably 8.4).

HP OpenVMS is the final incarnation of the VMS operating system created
by Digital Equipment Corporation originally for their VAX hardware. VMS
was heavily used by large enterprise mainframes, and in its early days
was often considered more solid and powerful than Unix. Underneath the
hood VMS is a much different operating system than Unix, with many innovations
that influenced later OSes.

The above screen shot shows the OpenVMS login. You can choose between
a CDE/Motif desktop or a DECWindows desktop.

This is the default OpenVMS CDE/Motif desktop. Visually it is similar
to the Solaris 8 CDE desktop.

The earlier VMS on VAX only had DECWindows,
but VMS for Alpha systems added CDE/Motif.

Technically Motif is the underlying toolkit and window manger, while
CDE is the desktop application and accessories. But the two tend to blend
together, and OpenVMS refers to the desktop as just "Motif".

The toolbar at the bottom of the screen has icons for various tools,
and menus with related options appears above each one.

Open application windows minimize to icons on the desktop.

This also shows the File Manager. Notice that OpenVMS uses a drive path
syntax much different from Windows or Unix.